ASB WELCOMES NEW FACULTY Malavika Sundararajan, assistant professor of management, earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior and entrepreneurship and M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, her M.A. from University of Madras, Chennai, India, and her B.Sc. from Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore, India. Professor Sundararajan currently teaches Managing Organizational Behavior and Ethics in Business. Her research interests include emotions, ethics, cognitive models, corporate social responsibility and entrepreneurial thinking.
ASB WELCOMES DR. CHARLES STEINDEL,
A “SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE” Charles Steindel is Resident Scholar in the Anisfield School of Business. He was formerly Chief Economist at the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, with responsibility for economic and revenue projections and analysis of state economic policy. He came to the Treasury after a long career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he played a leading role in forecasting and policy advice and attended Federal Open Market Committee meetings. He has served in leading roles in a number of professional organizations. In 2011, he received the William F. Butler Award from the New York Association for Business Economics. He is a member of the panel for the Survey of Professional Forecasters and the Committee on Research in Income and Wealth, and has published in fields across a range of areas. He received his bachelor’s degree from Emory University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Roberto “Bobby” Saldivar, assistant professor of marketing, earned his Ph.D. in business administration with a major in marketing and an M.B.A. from University of Texas-Pan American, and his B.B.A from the University of Texas at Brownsville. Professor Saldivar teaches Marketing Principles and Practice, Sales Management, Consumer Behavior, and will develop a class on Corporates Social Responsibility. His research interests include investigating consumer reactions to corporate social responsibility and investigating immigrant consumer experiences in the market. Changhee Lee, assistant professor of accounting, earned her Ph.D. in accounting from Rutgers University, her M.S. from Michigan State University, her M.B.A. from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and her B.E. and B.S. from Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea. Professor Lee currently teaches Principles of Financial Accounting and Principles of Managerial Accounting. Her research interests include financial analyst forecast and recommendation, market inefficiency and corporate social responsibility.
TRANSITIONS: PROFESSOR ANTHONY LA MANNA RETIRES AFTER 43 YEARS Anthony V. La Manna, Esq., professor of business administration and law, joined Ramapo College in 1972. Prior to that, he was an administrator with National Community Bank and associate systems engineer for IBM. Professor La Manna was the first director of the School of Administration and Finance (as it was then known). He has taught more than 20 courses for the school including courses in accounting, marketing and finance. His main area of expertise, however, is in business law. He is an attorney in New Jersey and an arbitrator and mediator with the American Arbitration Association, and an arbitrator with the Financial Industry Regulatory Association (FINRA). Professor La Manna says what he enjoyed most about his career at Ramapo College was “teaching...the students are great, my colleagues, co-workers and associates are wonderful...I've made literally hundreds of friends over the 43 years. I have been truly blessed in my career.” The faculty, staff and students of the Anisfield School of Business wish him all the best in his retirement. WWW.RAMAPO.EDU/ASB
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